Reggae music broke through to international audiences in the early ’70s, and the former Beatles were listening. You heard the sounds on solo albums by both John Lennon and Paul McCartney in that ...
I wish to express some of my concerns about the current state of reggae music as we enter 2018. Firstly, reggae music has gone global. There are exponents in many countries in the world; however, ...
Alborosie has managed to shoot the precarious gap between the traditional Jamaican reggae of Burning Spear and Black Uhuru and the modern, Americanized version of artists like Stick Figure and SOJA, ...
9 August 1973 Once the underdog of western popular music, now, the time is deemed right for the promotion of Jamaica’s top reggae bands That jangling, syncopated sound of modern Jamaica, known as ...
In 1969, upstart reggae singer Bob Marley introduced a friend from his hometown to one of Jamaica's top record producers. The friend's name was Winston Rodney, but the world would soon know him as ...
Ghanaian Reggae/ Dancehall musician, Ras Kuuku, has shared his opinion on the current state of Reggae music in Ghana. Contrary to popular beliefs, he maintains that Reggae music is “not dead”. Ras ...
“Reggae Jam – Meeting of the Legends” is doing its best to live up to that billing. The second staging of the music festival organized by the groundbreaking band Inner Circle will put the spotlight on ...
Hopeton Harris never imagined he’d be a reggae music apostle in Japan. Like many expats who end up staying longer than expected (ahem!), Harris was a willing victim of happenstance. “I got asked to ...
Celebrity-driven tribute albums are almost always disappointing, if not a total waste of time. Yet the enormous potential for disaster didn’t stop the V2 label from consummating their relationship ...